We are a nonprofit community mental health center whose mission is to ensure all members of our community have an opportunity to achieve their highest potential for living satisfying, productive, and valued lives.

We are dedicated to developing, organizing and efficiently utilizing resources to plan and provide quality mental health, developmental delay/intellectual disability, and substance use disorder services. We believe all persons should be afforded the opportunity to access community resources.

Persons with mental illness, developmental delay/intellectual disability, and substance use disorder are often devalued. They are segregated from living in the acceptable residence of their choice and from productive participation with their family and friends.

The efforts of Cumberland River Behavioral Health and our associated agencies is focused on empowering individuals to make decisions, preserve friendships, increase family involvement, integrate into the community, live satisfying lives, and to be employed in meaningful activities which are challenging and rewarding.

Cumberland River Behavioral Health is dedicated to planning and providing quality mental health, developmental and intellectual disabilities, and substance use services in our eight county service area, including Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Rockcastle, and Whitley counties.

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Cumberland River Behavioral Health, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or any other non-merit based factors. In addition to federal law requirements, Cumberland River Behavioral Health, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has operations. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Patient Accounts Clerk (Temp)

Corbin, KY

Temporary

Cumberland River Behavioral Health, Inc.

Entry Level

Job Title: Patient Accounts Clerk

Qualifications Include: High School Diploma or GED; Computer and typing skills; Organization skills; Submitting to and passing successfully a criminal records check and a drug screening test.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. Different hours may be required with the job or may be adjusted by Supervisor.

This position reports to the Regional Patient Accounts Coordinator.

Summary of Job Duties: The Patient Accounts Clerk will be responsible for processing billing documents and submitting bills to the appropriate payers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Review all billing documents for accuracy.
Return those documents that are incorrect for correction and maintain a log of when and who those documents were returned to. Follow ups may be required.
Billings will be submitted accurately and timely to the appropriate vendors monthly. Including self-pay statements.
Appropriate follow-ups will be completed on unpaid billings.
Filing will be maintained in a timely manner.
Maintain knowledge of the Billing Manual Procedures and changes made throughout the year.
Maintain knowledge of specific vendor requirements for billing, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Insurance, and Contracts.
Provide appropriate information to consumers and staff without breeching confidentiality in a courteous manner.
Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Required Job Skills:

Oral and written communication skills.
Keyboarding and Computer skills.
Computer Program skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.)
Good organizational skills.
Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, diplomacy and compassion.
Ability to complete job tasks in a timely fashion.
Ability to get along with diverse personalities and maintain effective working relationships.

Patient Accounts Clerk
Job Description
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Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands required to successfully perform this job include being able to push, pull, stoop, bend, stand, walk and lift up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable the individual with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
The employee will normally work indoors at the Corbin Regional Office but may on occasion be required to work outside or at another location if necessary. The noise level in the work environment is mild to moderate.
The position may require duties to include routine or reasonably anticipated tasks or procedures where there is a degree of actual or potential exposure to blood or other infectious materials.
Hours of work are structured 7.5 or 8.0 hour blocks of time but may be subject to irregular and/or flexible hours based on needs or demands.
Participation in annual training regarding infection control and safety in the environment including hazardous waste and blood borne pathogens will be required.
All new staff must attend training regarding handling physical, verbal threats, acts of violence or other escalating and potential dangerous situations including when police need to be summoned.

Required Job Performance:

Successful Performance Evaluation on an annual basis. A Performance Improvement Plan will be initiated on all employees who have a negative performance evaluation. An employee will be terminated if the Performance Improvement Plan is viewed as unsuccessful after 2 attempts.

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